18 thoughts on “What Are You Reading in August?”

Frustrating little time to read in amongst the cardboard boxes and finding I just want to stare into the middle distance and think when I do get some free time! But soon, soon, everything will be in its place, the books on their new shelves and thus all will be right with my world.

I’ve been on a reading spurt lately! I’ve been reading about the workings of the U.S. Federal Reserve, “Benighted” by J.B. Priestly (which I really enjoyed), tried reading the sci-fi “Riddley Walker” (which I found annoying), and have just started reading “Russian Winter” for our book club.

Beach reads, for me, are a last choice. However, I did just read a review of “My Lady Jane” which was apparently written by three different people and the reviewer could not distinguish between them. I’m keen to read it to analyze the writing.

Well it’s August and so its #WITMonth and so I’m reading from my pile of books by Women in Translation, so I’ve been to Argentina, South Korea and Hungary already with The Rabbit House (memoir), The Vegetarian (Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016) and The Door (a bit of classic from Magda Szabo).

And as far as beach reads, I usually save one summer chunkster for the beach and this year its Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings, really outside my normal reading zone, but I’m getting through it slowly!

I have Romantic outlaws on my list, I loved Frankenstein and want to read A Vindication as well before the Outlaws book. Happy Reading!!

I am currently mostly reading, from the library, “Sparrow” by Mary Doria Russell, science fiction novel about a Jesuit mission in the form of first contact with an alien race. A thought-provoking read. The science end is perhaps a bit flimsy but philosophy end makes up for it. Still trying to decide if it’s a religious book about science fiction or a science fiction book about religion. Either way it’s well put together and a solid read.

Also plugging my way through “Darlington’s Fall, A Novel in Verse” by Brad Leithauser as I have been working for a number of years on what may possibly become a post-apocalyptic-last-man-on-earth-epic-haibun-love-poem-novel-in-verse…..if all goes well….or it may just become a science fiction novel with a lot of poetry in it…..we’ll see….

Planning on getting back to “The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton” that was a lovely father’s day gift fro my wife and daughter. She’s long been one of my favorites a poet of immense power and definitely a “formative” when I first began to explore poetry.